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Hammurabi's Code of Law

Iraq History

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia Virtual Classroom -- Contains teaching aids and references for secondary school teachers and students.

Mesopotamian Image Gallery -- Oriental Institute Virtual Gallery, Chicago

Nippur Expedition

Sam Ruff's Photographs of Mesopotamia, 1954-1956 Including Real Audio captions.

Sumerian Text Archive

A Great Assemblage: The Babylonian Collection - 
Provides images and descriptions from artifacts held at Sterling Memorial Library.

Ancient Mesopotamia: 7000 to 550 BC - 
From WebChronology Project.

Babylonia and Near Eastern Resources - 
From Restoring Christian Keys.

Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics - 
MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

Babylonian Flood Story

Babylonian Mathematics - 
How this ancient culture used math to mark time, and build large structures.

Babylonian Texts of the First Millennium B.C. - 
A database of administrative, juridical, and economic texts.

Catholic Encyclopedia: Babylonia - 
Covering aspects of geography, early history, the first and Chaldean empires.

Catholic Encyclopedia: Captivities of the Israelites - 
Providing Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman Captivity.

Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE - 
Ancient History Sourcebook.

Counting in Babylon - 
Weights, measures, numbering systems, fractions, and more.

Cyrus the Great - 
First Achaemenian Emperor of Persia, who is believed to be the first head of state to issue a decree on the rights of nations.

Encyclopædia Britannica: Babylonia - 
About the ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria - 
From the Ancient History Sourcebook.

History of Plumbing - Babylonia - 
From theplumber.com.

King Hammurabi (c.1792-1750 BCE) - 
Provides information concerning the Amorite King of Babylon, best known for his Code of Laws.

Lectures: Mesopotamia

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia - 
The geography, environment, people, economy, theology and Assyriology from John Heise's "Akkadian language".

Mesopotamia in the Era of State Formation - 
Info the Uruk expansion and theories of cultural change in Greater Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium B.C.

Mesopotamian Origins of Genesis. - 
Comparing Biblical stories in Genesis to the more ancient Mesopotamian texts.

Mesopotamian Year Names: Neo-Sumerian and Old Babylonian Date Formulae - 
Compiled as a tool for the dating of cuneiform tablets as well as for supporting historical studies on early bookkeeping techniques.

Old Babylonian Kingdom: Hanging Gardens of Babylon - 
The great fruits and flowers... waterfalls... gardens hanging from the palace terraces; they might have never existed.

Old Babylonian Kingdom: King Hammurabi (c.1792-1750 BCE) - Provides information about the Amorite King of Babylon, best known for his Code of Laws.

Old Persian Texts

Origin and Development of Writing in Mesopotamia - 
An economic interpretation by Arden Eby.

Virtual Museum Mesopotamian Art - 
Provides a collections for the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Requires Quicktime VR.

Web Directory: ABZU Mesopotamia - 
Resources for the study of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hittite and other languages written in cuneiform scripts.

Web Directory: Mesopotamia - 
From Creative Impulse, The Artist's view of World History and Western Civilization.

Woolley and the Great Flood - 
Info about the Mesopotamian flood tradition.

FAQ - The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology

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